Daily Wisdom Plan

¹For the choir director: with the flutes. A psalm of David. [1] Listen to my words, LORD; consider my sighing.

²Pay attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for I pray to you.

³In the morning, LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I plead my case to you and watch expectantly.

⁴For you are not a God who delights in wickedness; evil cannot dwell with you.

⁵The boastful cannot stand in your sight; you hate all evildoers.

⁶You destroy those who tell lies; the LORD abhors violent and treacherous people.

⁷But I enter your house by the abundance of your faithful love; I bow down toward your holy temple in reverential awe of you.

⁸LORD, lead me in your righteousness because of my adversaries; make your way straight before me.

⁹For there is nothing reliable in what they say; destruction is within them; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongues.

¹⁰Punish them, God; let them fall by their own schemes. Drive them out because of their many crimes, for they rebel against you.

¹¹But let all who take refuge in you rejoice; let them shout for joy forever. May you shelter them, and may those who love your name boast about you.

¹²For you, LORD, bless the righteous one; you surround him with favor like a shield.

¹For the choir director: with stringed instruments, according to . A psalm of David. [1] LORD, do not rebuke me in your anger; do not discipline me in your wrath.

²Be gracious to me, LORD, for I am weak; heal me, LORD, for my bones are shaking;

³my whole being is shaken with terror. And you, LORD  — how long?

⁴Turn, LORD! Rescue me; save me because of your faithful love.

⁵For there is no remembrance of you in death; who can thank you in Sheol?

⁶I am weary from my groaning; with my tears I dampen my bed and drench my couch every night.

⁷My eyes are swollen from grief; they grow old because of all my enemies.

⁸Depart from me, all evildoers, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.

⁹The LORD has heard my plea for help; the LORD accepts my prayer.

¹⁰All my enemies will be ashamed and shake with terror; they will turn back and suddenly be disgraced.

¹A of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. [1] LORD my God, I seek refuge in you; save me from all my pursuers and rescue me

²or they will tear me like a lion, ripping me apart with no one to rescue me.

³LORD my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice on my hands,

⁴if I have done harm to one at peace with me or have plundered my adversary without cause,

⁵may an enemy pursue and overtake me; may he trample me to the ground and leave my honor in the dust. Selah

⁶Rise up, LORD, in your anger; lift yourself up against the fury of my adversaries; awake for me; you have ordained a judgment.

⁷Let the assembly of peoples gather around you; take your seat on high over it.

⁸The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, LORD, according to my righteousness and my integrity.

⁹Let the evil of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous. The one who examines the thoughts and emotions is a righteous God.

¹⁰My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

¹¹God is a righteous judge and a God who shows his wrath every day.

¹²If anyone does not repent, he will sharpen his sword; he has strung his bow and made it ready.

¹³He has prepared his deadly weapons; he tips his arrows with fire.

¹⁴See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil, conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.

¹⁵He dug a pit and hollowed it out but fell into the hole he had made.

¹⁶His trouble comes back on his own head; his own violence comes down on top of his head.

¹⁷I will thank the LORD for his righteousness; I will sing about the name of the LORD Most High.

¹For the choir director: on the . A psalm of David. [1] LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth! You have covered the heavens with your majesty.

²From the mouths of infants and nursing babies, you have established a stronghold on account of your adversaries in order to silence the enemy and the avenger.

³When I observe your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

⁴what is a human being that you remember him, a son of man that you look after him?

⁵You made him little less than God and crowned him with glory and honor.

⁶You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:

⁷all the sheep and oxen, as well as the animals in the wild,

⁸the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea that pass through the currents of the seas.

⁹LORD, our Lord, how magnificent is your name throughout the earth!